The best guides: Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. Their teachings are sobering but consoling. Feel heroic and defiant in the face of our many troubles.
Stoicism can help with the following problems:
- Anxiety – Stoics propose to courageously come on terms with the very worst possibilities. We will cope no matter what it will happen.
- Fury – angry is caused by an incorrect picture of existence, the collision of hope and reality. In order to be happy expect far less from life. Reach a state where simply nothing could suddenly disturb your peace of mind.
- Paranoia -Don’t wonder why it happened to you. It may neither be your nor anyone else’s fault.
- Loss of perspective – Contemplation of the heavans. Nothing that happens to us is of any consequence whatsoever from the cosmic perspective.